Method of fishing



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N. A. LYBECK METHOD 6F FISHING Original Filed June 22. 1917 2 SheetsSheet 1 Hum/Ton New" 4 Lybeck Aug; 14; 1923;"

METHOD OF FISHING Original Filed June 22. 1917 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 By M-Patented Aug. 14, 1923. r a o i I I filp fipz srras Marthe.

uurr 1r nnns A: LYBECK,-OF new YORK, 1r. Y.

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Original application filed June 22,1917, Serial- No. 176,274. Dividedand this application and October as, 1920. Serial No. 420,122. i 7

T cZZ whom it may 0011mm: I the water forwardly of the scoop so as notto 55 Be it known that LNnns A. LYBECK, a illuminatethe scoopbut ratherleave it in citizen of the United States, residing at total darkness,sothat its approach will not New York city, borough of Manhattan, in beso clearly discerned by the fish. Howthe county and State of New York,have inever, the distance between the forward end vented a certain newand useful Method of of the scoop and the lighted zone is pref- 60Fishing, of which the following is a speci erably such that the fishwill be received fication. within the scoop an instant after the lightis This invention relates to a method of fishcarried beyond them, sothat they will be iming and is more particularly directed to the.nicdiately surrounded by the scoop and their method of attracting fishinto a predeterescape rendered impossible. The fish will 65 mined zoneor locality, whereby they may naturally, scatter when the lightedsurface be more readily caught or collected at night. of the waterpasses beyond them and it is Lon experienceas a fisherman and thedesirable that they be encompassed. by the study o'f the habits of fish,have led to the scoop before such scattering can take place.

conception of the improved method of this Features of the'invention,other than those, 70 invention, which'is carried out by mountingspecified, will be apparent from the hereinupon a fishing boat, providedat its forward after detailed description and claims, when part with afish collecting scoop, a plurality read in conjunction with theaccompanying of'powerful searchlights, which'are so posidrawings.

tioned relative to one another that the power- The accompanying drawingsillustrate a 75 ful rays or beams of light projected from the fishingboat equipped with search lights by several lights intersect One anotherat a means of which the present invent-ion may point directly forward ofthe boat and exbe practiced, but it will be understood that tend indivergent relations beyond such the practicing of the present inventionis point of intersection for a considerable disnot limited to theapparatus shown in the 8 tance. On a dark night, these beams or raysdrawingafbutthat it can be carried out in of light extend with aconsiderable brilliancy other forms of apparatus without departing forseveral miles, illuminating the surface from the invention.

of the water for that distance with a number in the drawings, Figure 1is a perspective of cone shaped glows at the apex of which view of afishing boat equipped for the carryis the boat. v a 7 ing out of thepresent invention; and,

It is well known that fish will come to- Figure 2 is a front perspectiveview 10f ward a light at night, and when the present the boat shown'inFigure 1.

invention is practiced, fish within a large Referr'ng to tlie' drawings,1 designates a area forwardly of the boat will be attracted fishing boatwhich, for the purpose of illusb the light and through such attractiontration, is shown as of the type described will enter the divergingzones of illuminated and claimed in my co-pending application waterforwardly of the boat. As the boat aforesaid, of which the present caseis a 40 moves forward, lighted zones of the water divis on. A boat ofthis type is provided will be brought into convergence and at any at itsforward end with a scoop 2, which is particular region will come closertogether, submerged below the surface of the water thereby drawing thefish into the direct path and is provided with an open forward end 3 ofthe boat. By the time the boat is subinto which fish in the pathfof theboat are stantially upon them, they will have been adaptedto be receivedas the boat moves fordrawn within the dimensions of the open wardly'.-The sides of the scoop 2, which front of the scoop, in which they arecolare of a foraminous character, extend rearg lected and disposed ofafter the manner dewardly n' converging relation and terminate scribedin my co-pending application on at the forward end of a conveyor housing4.

fishing boat, filed June 22, 1917, Ser. No. Within the conveyor housing4, a conveyor 176,274, or in' any other suitable way. (not shown)operates to lift the fish de- In the preferred manner of practicing thelivered thereto into the boat. The construcpresent invention, thesearch-lights are so tion described forms no part of the presentpositioned that the rays thereof will strike invention and furtherdetails of such struc- Ice ture are unnecessary here, thedescription"advanced "being merely for the purpose of I '1 illustrating the mannerin Whichfthe present invention may be practiced. I s

In carrying outthe presentinvention I "mount upon the forward. portionof the boat, 7 preferably on one of the upper de'c'ks,'a-Ip1urality ofpowerful searchlights, five of which 1 above the pilot house. These'archlightb 'is' 5 8*areinounted on the bridge at points intermediatethe. searchlights'5 and 7 and 7 and 9 fS'ai'cl searchlightsare-thusipositioned at are -s11ovvn inthe drawin s "designated 5, 6, 7,8 and The searchlight 7islnounted in the medial line of the boatbutdirectly mounted on thestarboard end oft-he bridge.

The se'archliglit '9 is niountedon the portefnclof the bridge andthejsearchlights'fi and suitable intervals transverselyof the boat andin positions to proj ec t their beams in 'a forward direction. r

- *I'n installingthe 'se'arclilights' in position,

theya're 'so arr'anged thatwhil'e all of them 'vvill cast their beams ina direction for- Wardl-y oftheboat, they are so adjustedthatallbftheibeams will intersect and crossone another at a'poi11t slightly'forw'ardof the rel-ward openend 3' or thescoop 2', an d, will,

beyond this point of. intersection, diverge a'ltrthenianner shown inFigure From a more specific standpoint, it W111 be note-din Figure 2,that the light beam 7 fromthe Searchlight 7, which is'positioned'inthemedi'al line ofthe'boat, is projected directly forward of theboat,"the Searchlight 5;"Which is positioned on the starboard side I ottheboat projects its beam 5 across the 'vergent paths of port quarter;the searchlightfi intermediate the search'li'ghts '5' and 7"projec'tsitsray G across the port quarter but at alessr angle than" the beam 5;'the"searchlight 9"at the across the starboard qu'art'er; and thesearchli'ght S'between' the lines 7 and 9jalso'pr'ojects its beamacross'the starboard "quarter forward or the open end of the scoop,leavingftheopen end of the scoopin darkness, butffor'ming forwardly ofthepoint 10 dilighted Water, as shown in Figure 2.

As, the boat moves forwardly; the fish are 7 drawn together within therespective lighted regions ahead and at the same time into the "path of1 the boat, to be gathered into the' scoop and transported by'theconveyor, into 7 the boat.

In the manner described; fish throughout alarge area aredrawn' togetherby the'conv verging light' beams and I are herded directly in the pathof the scoop; and," inpractice, i

the searchli-ghtsmay be {positionedat d'ifi'erent angles to vary thewidth of effective path of operation. If desired, more or less than fivelights maybe employed, the num-.

ber of lights being optional.

' 'I'aving thus fully described the invention,

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is:

*lfll he method of fishing which consists in moving ,fish receivingmeans'through the water and attracting fish into the path er the fishreceivingmeansby projecting light onto-thes'ur tace of the waterinfadvance' of the fish recelv ng means for the purpose of illuminatingla divergent areaot the 'Water aheatlot the fish receivingmeans antlfat substant ally the apex of which convergent areathe fishreceiving means moves. a

2. TllB'HlGthOCl otfishing yvhichconsists in V illuminating-adivergentareaoit' the surface oiff'the Water from above the surface of the Water,to"attractfish'into such -a1-ea, '-causing the illuminated divergentarea to move forward for the purpose otherding'the fish together atthe"apex of such a'reaand simulta neo-usly moving fish collecting V a m anthrough the Water substantially at I the apex of such for thepurpose'ofcollectin'g V the fish.

proj ecting 1' from above. the surface of the Water; a" plurality ofpowerful rays of light .in converging 1elat1on,'wherebythey inter- Themethod" of fishing \yhich consists sect at substantially'a common pointbeyond: I

which .t-heyare projected, in divergent relation and directingsuch beamsotlight onto the surface of the fwaterf so that {they illuminatet'he'su'r'face'of thewaterg substam t1allyfat anjd'beyondthe' pointio'finter-see.

tion of said bea1ns,"ca'using the beams toi-si m'ultaneously andcollectively n'love 'fo l'-" Ward hile maintained in: such relation andsimultaneously mov ng forward fishcollectthe'fish collecting'means andare received thereinto.

lf'The method sists in "moving submerged fis'hf collecting n cansthrough the water and simultaneously promoting a powerful hghttronrabove the e VSIlI'l'ZICG ofthe' water onto the 'surface thereoil tolight up affan shaped area of thexsurface or the Water for acomparatively long distance in advance 'ofthefish collecting means.

In testimony Jivhereof', I 'ihave' signed iny' nameto thisspecification. 7

of catching fish which (5011- I ing means substantially atthep'oint*otfinter I section of the beai'ns oflight;Whereby fish 1 areattracted and herded into thepat-hbt 1 0

